Island
Cars move by behind a painted surface. A traffic island with pine trees is revealed by scratching the painted surface. Trams and people pass by.
The traffic island is a strange piece of urban nature. Isolated from its surroundings it starts to resemble a watercolour painting by Albrecht Dürer where a turf of grass has been cut out from its environment.
I filmed the video in December 2015 through the kitchen window of a gallery in the harbour of Helsinki. It was first exhibited in the same gallery as a site-specific video piece.
Salla Myllylä is based in Helsinki, Finland.
Salla Myllylä is a visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Her work moves between drawing, painting, and moving images, and is often site-specific. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki in 2014 and is currently a doctoral student in same university. Her works have been presented in exhibitions in artist-run spaces such as Gallery Huuto, Gallery G and Forum Box in Finland, in museums such as Frankfurter Kunstverein and Charlottenborg Kunsthal in Copenhagen, in festivals such as Tampere Film Festival and Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo and in public space for example in health care facilities and metro stations.